THE CALCUTTA LAND – REVENUE ACT, 1856
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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 
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SECTIONS. 

1.  Regulations modified. 
2.  Collection of Stamp Duty in Calcutta to be ordinarily in charge of the Collector. 
3.  Collector may entrust any part of his duties to his Deputy. 
 
 
 
THE CALCUTTA LAND – REVENUE ACT, 1856

ACT NO.  18 OF 1856 

PASSED BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF INDIA. 

(Received the assent of the Governor General on the 23rd August, 1856.)

AN ACT relating to the administration of the Public Revenues in the Town of Calcutta.

Preamble:  —WHEREAS  it  is  expedient  that  the  Collector  of  Calcutta  should  have  charge  of  the 
collection of the Stamp Duty within the town of Calcutta, and that he should have power to employ any 
Deputy Collector subordinate to him, in the performance of any art of the duties of his office: — It is enacted 
as follows: —

I.   Regulations modified : — Such part of Section VI, Regulation XII, 1826 of the Bengal Code, and 
such part of Section VI of a Rule Ordinance and Regulation for the Town of Calcutta, made and passed on 
the 14th day of June 1827, as prescribe that  an Officer being a Civil Servant of the Honorable Company 
shall be specially appointed by the Governor General in Council to take charge of the collection of the 
Stamp Duty within the City of Calcutta, are  declared subject to the following modification.

II.  Collection  of  Stamp  Duty  in  Calcutta  to  be  ordinarily  in  charge  of  the  Collector:  —  The 
collection  of  the  Stamp  Duty  within  the  Town  of  Calcutta  shall  ordinarily,  and  unless  the  Lieutenant 
Governor of Bengal shall otherwise direct, be in the charge of the Collector of Calcutta.

III.  Collector may entrust any part of his duties to his Deputy : —  It shall be lawful for the Collector 
of Calcutta to employ any Deputy Collector subordinate to him, in the performance of any part of the duties 
of  his office under  the said Regulation, or under Act XI of 1849, or Act  XXIII of 1850; and all Rules, 
Regulations, and Acts relating to the office of Deputy Collector, shall be of the same force within the Town 
of Calcutta as in other parts of the territories subject to the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal.